Church of St Peter (Armenian Church)

Church of St Peter (Armenian Church), Cranley Gardens SW7

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1190125
Date first listed:: 07-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:: Church of St Peter (Armenian Church)
Statutory Address:: Church of St Peter (Armenian Church), Cranley Gardens SW7

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1190125
Date first listed:: 07-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:: Church of St Peter (Armenian Church)
Statutory Address 1:: Church of St Peter (Armenian Church), Cranley Gardens SW7

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Church of St Peter (Armenian Church), Cranley Gardens SW7

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Kensington and Chelsea (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 26597 78296

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 28/09/2012 TQ 2678 SE 55/42

CRANLEY GARDENS SW7 Church of St Peter (Armenian Church)

GV II* Church. 1866-67, designed and built by the office of C.J Freake, with additions by W.D Caröe and others, principally of 1907-09 and 1922-23. Kentish ragstone with ashlar dressings. Slate roof. Decorated Gothic style.

Tower in north-west corner, with three-stage broach steeple. Vestries and hall on north side behind vicarage, by Caröe, 1907-09. Interior is cruciform with north and south aisles and transepts, apsidal east end. Four-bay nave arcade to crossing arch with clerestorey having alternate pairs of quatrefoil-headed and trefoil-headed lights; triple arches flanking transepts, and chancel arch to sanctuary. Nave walls originally polychrome brick, now whitewashed; west gallery by Caröe, 1909. Choir (under crossing) and sanctuary altered and embellished by Caröe and Passmore, 1922-23, with dormer lights, and reredos, sedilia, and canopy work richly carved by Nathaniel Hitch. Organ case on south side and gallery in north transept by Caröe. Morning chapel off north transept by Caröe, 1907-09, with lierne vault and carved figures by Hitch and Harold Whitaker, and Cosmati-style floor. Oak pulpit byJ S Alder, 1902. Stained glass by many hands, notably clerestorey windows by Mary Lowndes, 1904-06. St Peter's was built by C.J Freake as an estate church for his building developments on the Smith's Charity Estate, complementing his previous St Paul's, Onslow Square (q.v.).

Listing NGR: TQ2659778296

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Legacy System number:: 203727
Legacy System:: LBS

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'Survey of London' in Survey of London - Southern Kensington: Volume 41, (1983), 114-17

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.